The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-04-07
TO TEE BRAVE OF BOTH SIDES.
One of Pickett's Heroes Suggests Union
Monument at Gettysburg.

One of PIckett's Heroes Suggests Union
Monument at Gettysburg.
RICHMOND, VA, March 24.-The re-.
cent special dispatches in the New York
Herald in reference to the proposed visit
of the survivors of Pickett's division to
Gettysburg, on the Sd of July next, have
created the greatest enthusiasm among
the VETERANS of both armies North and
South. The old time foes of July, 1868,
will meet again on the same ground in
1887, as friends and citizens of q reunited
country.
Patriotic communications are constant.
ly passing between the old soldiers Of
Pickett's division aud those of Hancock's
corps, who opposed them on Cemetery
Ridge, with view to the grand reunion
in July next. This has resulted in q
novel and striking proposition made by
Captain E. P. Reeve, of Company D.
First Regiment of Virginia Infantry,
which meets with general appreciation
here.
Captain Reeve enjoys the. honorable
distinction of having been shot at Gettys-
burg and wounded in nineteen battles.
He was once left for dead on the field,
but he wears his scars nobly and is to day
in excellent health.
Captain Reeve, in communication to
the Executive Committee of Picketts
division, proposes joint memorial monu.
ment on the field of Gettysburg to the
dead of both armies. He says:
"The portion Of the Northern army
which opposed Pickett's division at Get.
tysburg and the survivors of Pickett's
division have, unknown to each other,
selected the same spot for the site of
memorial monument.
"Why not, on the spot thus selected,
erect joint monument? A memorial of
the gallant men on Doth sides who gave
their lives for cause they both believed
Just !; A monument grand enough in pro.
portions 10 commemorate this, which will
live in history as perhaps the grandest
struggle Of the war; q monument which
will perpetute the heroic deeds Of their
forefathers to millions yet unborn-grand
enough to memorialize the supreme mo-
ment in the history of the great nation;
the Northern side devoted to suitable
inscriptions to the Northern dead the
Southern to those who fell on our side,
and the East and West sides to such
patriotic sentiments as may be deemed
suitable; the whole to memorable true
and lasting reconciliation, which we trust
outlast time itself, and the pledge of a
union, mot only of States, but of hearts
and hands, sincere and honorable to both
parties, and therefore, called 'Hizpah.'
For would not this Union in honoring
our heroic dead bear in itself pledge of
future amity? And could we not point
to this monument for all time to come as
q sacred covenant that neither of US
would pass it to harm the other, aud in
the beautiful language of Scripture say,
the Lord watch between thee and me-?
"Methink, in the distant future, when
sectionalism may be so completely oblit-
Grated that Mason and Dixon's line may
be only remembered additionally, that
the pilgrim from any part of this glorious
country, with its teeming millions, may
draw inspiration from this monument,
commemorating, as it does, the fact that
so many thousands of his forefathers were
willing to sacrifice life in defense Of
principle, and also to demonstrate to fu-
ture generations that brave men, engaged
in o cause dearer than life, when the
smoke of the combat had passed and the
conflict ended in failure, could accept the
decree of Providence, surrender cause
which they cauld not maintain, and join.
ing hands in true and lasting friendship
stand in the ranks, touching elbows with
all whose aim it is to perpetuats the free
institutions and develop the vast resour-
ces of our glorious country"
Captain Reeve continues: "Far be it
from the writer to wish for an undue
share of the glory of Gettysburg or the
war, for his own or the opposing division
in that battle. The idea was certainly
suggested by the action taken by these
two divisions in selecting the same spot
for a memorial monument, but the mon.
ument I suggest should be national
memorial To all the gallant dead of both
sides and monument of real reconcil.
iation which shall make US again a united
and happy nation"
The Executive Committee of Pickett's
division will at its next meeting take
action on this proposal of Captain Reeve
and there is no doubt it will be submit
ted to Hancock's men for their favorable
consideration.-New York Herald.